Lena Dunham Wrote to a Sex Advice Columnist About Being a Virgin at 19

She then added the rest of the question, which made use both the phrase “six ways to Sunday” and the term “v-team”:

And finally added Bufalino’s response, which she called “generous”:

Bufalino, perhaps unsurprisingly, told Dunham to stop worrying about what dudes who she might want to sleep with might thing of her, instructing her to:

…hang on to that v-card until I tell you it’s time to relinquish it…you will simply live your Intermix-clad, iPod-accessorized, O.C.-obsessed life until you meet a young man who doesn’t give a whit about your sexual status, but just wants to express his love for you through three timid thrusts and premature ejaculation.

This information also clears up any confusion: at 19, Lena Dunham was Shoshanna Shapiro, not Hannah Horvath, a comfort to Snuggie-wearing, fast-talking virgins the world over.

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